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All the racist, hateful things said at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden
| October 28, 2024
2024 ELECTIONS | Donald Trump | EXTREMISM | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | TEXAS | Texas Lead Story
The rally bore glaring similarities to a Nazi rally held at an earlier iteration of Madison Square Garden in 1939. “My reaction is that it was a combination of 1933 Germany, 1939 Madison Square Garden last night,” former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci said on Monday.

Op-Ed: How Trump exploited a willing media to convince Americans that nothing matters
| October 25, 2024
More than nine years after he launched his first campaign for president, much of the media continues to struggle with how to cover Donald Trump. In a new op-ed, Jordan Zakarin describes the failures to hold Trump to account.

Trump’s former chief of staff says the former president praised Hitler and would rule like a ‘fascist’
| October 23, 2024
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump reportedly said in a private conversation in the White House. And in an interview with The Atlantic, Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly recalled that Trump once raised the idea of needing “German generals” to him directly.

Opinion: Be a child care voter this year
by Nina Perez
| October 23, 2024
Moms know that child care is a life-shaping issue for their own families. Many are at risk of being forced onto public assistance if they can't find the affordable care that makes it possible for them to stay in the workforce. But too many moms don’t know which candidates support the solutions they need.

What to know about this year’s Social Security cost-of-living adjustment
| October 23, 2024
Tens of millions of older Americans will see an increase in benefits this January when a new cost-of-living adjustment is added to Social Security payments.